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Author: Theriocephalus

Nov 28th 2017 at 5:38:07 AM

I feel there's a pretty simple way of keeping this trope from being too dry and repetitive: actually discuss how it's used.

As it stands, most or all of the examples -- in all revisions that I'm seeing, page or comments or whatever -- seem to boil down to:

* Work A: This trope happens.
* Work B: This trope happens here too.
* Work C: This trope also happens.
* Work D: This work has this trope.
* Work E: This trope is here.

And the characters involved are named, and that's it. The description at least goes out of its way to dedicate a substantial paragraph to how or why this trope is employed in works, what uses it's put to, etcetera. It really think it would help if the examples mentioned this too. It would take care of the [=ZCES=], keep everything from being too repetitive, and make the page more interesting to read, too.

Put it another way: this is an ensemble trope. Surely there's some recurring character dynamics here.

On another note, regarding this example:

* ''WesternAnimation/KryptoTheSuperDog'' has Streaky the supercat, the rest of heroic characters, including Krypto himself and Ace the Bat-Hound, are dogs.

First, the grammar needs a lot of help. Second, I should think that "Krypto the Superdog" and "Ace the Bat-Hound" make it as clear as it's needed to be what species these two are --  the "are dogs" bit is redundant and unnecessary in this example.